I loved this book. Toya Wolfe did an amazing job creating a vivid world in this coming-of-age story set in the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago in the 1990s. This was the era in which many public housing projects were being torn down, and this story is told within that context of fear and uncertainty. (I had watched The Pruitt-Igoe Myth years ago and it’s just a wonderful documentary if you want a depiction of the complexities of urban housing post WWII and the use […]
“We meet people, they will transform us.”
Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe
